Recording
Freak Like Me
DJ Deeon
Independently chosen for3 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.
- Released
- 1994
- Label
- Dance Mania
- On
- Juke and Footwork, 1994, and Miami
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Ranked No. 2 in Juke and Footwork
Ghetto house at its most reduced: a drum pattern, a bassline and a chant. Deeon made records that cost nothing and worked on any system, which is why they travelled so far from Chicago.
Picked by 1994
Chicago ghetto house at the point where it starts to become the thing that becomes footwork. It is here because a whole subsequent genre is recognisably downstream of records like this one, made on almost nothing.
Picked by Miami
Chicago's ghetto house takes the same overlong, tuned kick rather than the house records made in its own city — the lineage note on our footwork ranking says exactly that. A drum pattern, a bassline, a chant, and nothing that costs money.